Scaling up Business Solutions to Social Problems: A Practical Guide for Social and Corporate EntrepreneursA silent revolution is underway, as entrepreneurs challenge prevalent notions of business motives and methods to invent market-based solutions to eradicate social injustice. Yet many fail to succeed. Based on original research, the authors uncover why impressive solutions fail to scale up, featuring global case studies and practical solutions. |
Contents
Social entrepreneurs and system change strategies | |
Why focus on marketbased social innovations? | |
Lighting | |
Financial services | |
Housing | |
Bridging the businesscitizen sector divide through hybrid value chains | |
Marketing from needs to wants | |
Sales and distribution the longest mile or fortune at the end of the road? | |
Financing social businesses | |
The role of philanthropy | |
Conclusion are we reinventing capitalism? | |
References | |
Boosting profitability of small farmers and microentrepreneurs | |
Introduction to Part 2 The path to scale | |
Corporations the incumbent dilemma | |
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